05014nam 2201081 a 450 991081571020332120200520144314.01-282-35753-097866123575340-520-93114-910.1525/9780520931145(CKB)1000000000799973(EBL)470975(OCoLC)609850122(SSID)ssj0000346176(PQKBManifestationID)11256410(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000346176(PQKBWorkID)10324910(PQKB)10125130(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055931(OCoLC)741926634(MdBmJHUP)muse30436(DE-B1597)519211(OCoLC)1110707096(DE-B1597)9780520931145(Au-PeEL)EBL470975(CaPaEBR)ebr10676307(CaONFJC)MIL235753(MiAaPQ)EBC470975(EXLCZ)99100000000079997320040412d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCrude politics[electronic resource] the California oil market, 1900-1940 /Paul SabinBerkeley University of California Press20051 online resource (331 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-24198-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.The end of the old property regime -- The politics of the 1920 Mineral Leasing Act -- Beaches versus oil in Southern California -- "The same unsavory smell of Teapot Dome" -- The struggle to control California oil production -- Federalism and the unruly oil market -- "Transportation by taxation" -- Defending the user financing system.Energy shortages, climate change, and the debate over national security have thrust oil policy to the forefront of American politics. How did Americans grow so dependent on petroleum, and what can we learn from our history that will help us craft successful policies for the future? In this timely and absorbing book, Paul Sabin challenges us to see politics and law as crucial forces behind the dramatic growth of the U.S. oil market during the twentieth century. Using pre-World War II California as a case study of oil production and consumption, Sabin demonstrates how struggles in the legislature and courts over property rights, regulatory law, and public investment determined the shape of the state's petroleum landscape. Sabin provides a powerful corrective to the enduring myth of "free markets" by demonstrating how political decisions affected the institutions that underlie California's oil economy and how the oil market and price structure depend significantly on the ways in which policy questions were answered before World War II. His concise and probing analysis casts fresh light on the historical relationship between business and government and on the origins of contemporary problems such as climate change and urban sprawl. Incisive, engaging, and meticulously researched, Crude Politics illuminates an important chapter in U.S. environmental, legal, business, and political history and the history of the American West.Petroleum industry and tradePolitical aspectsCaliforniaHistory20th centuryPetroleum industry and tradeGovernment policyCaliforniaHistory20th centuryEnergy policyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryalternative energy.american west.big business.california oil.california.climate change.crude oil.energy.environment.environmental issues.environmentalism.foreign policy.fossil fuels.frontier.global warming.government policy.government regulation.government.land rights.middle east.mineral rights.national security.nonfiction.oil consumption.oil economy.oil market.oil policy.oil production.petroleum.property rights.renewable energy.saudi arabia.terrorism.urban sprawl.Petroleum industry and tradePolitical aspectsHistoryPetroleum industry and tradeGovernment policyHistoryEnergy policyHistory338.2/7282/0979409041Sabin Paul1970-1618802MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815710203321Crude politics4053048UNINA